| Language of origin | French language |
| Feature Type: | Locality - A named place or area, generally with a scattered population of 50 or less. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | N side of Lac Le Jeune, just S of Kamloops, Kamloops Division Yale Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°28'39"N, 120°29'50"W at the approximate population centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92I/8 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Originally known as Costley's Lake, and then as Fish Lake. Name changed to Lac Le Jeune (Post Office) 5 September 1957 on 92 I/SE. Form of name changed to Lac Le Jeune (locality) 31 May 1982 on 92 I/8. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Renamed in honour of Father Jean-Marie Raphael Le Jeune, O.M.I. (1855-1930), who arrived from France as a missionary in 1879, serving first in the East Kootenay, then at Williams Lake, and finally at Kamloops. Using the Chinook jargon printed in the French Duployan shorthand, he published for the Indians a number of books and one newspaper, The Kamloops Wawa ("Wawa" is the Chinook word for "talk"). Source: Akrigg, Helen B. and Akrigg, G.P.V; 1001 British Columbia Place Names; Discovery Press, Vancouver 1969, 1970, 1973. |
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Fr. LeJeune was born at Pleyber Christ, France, 12 April 1855.... (see also Le Jeune, Lac). Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |